Skate park

Wesley Dean Ackley, the skateboarder who more than a decade ago changed the future of Riverhead’s skate park through the power of advocacy, was immortalized yesterday when Riverhead Town named the place where he spent much of his free time during his teenage years in his honor.

Vandals kicked in the door of a small building that used to house a park attendant two nights in a row.

The money saved by consolidating the skate park into about half its current space will be spread around to different projects, including resurfacing the Horton Avenue basketball court.

Riverhead Town has completed a five-and-a-half-year environmental review process on a new development plan for its remaining property at the former Grumman facility in Calverton. The...